match: introduce boolean prefix() method
tl;dr: This is another step towards a (previously unstated) goal of
eliminating match.files() in conditions.
There are four types of matchers:
* always: Matches everything, checked with always(), files() is empty
* exact: Matches exact set of files, checked with isexact(), files()
contains the files to match
* patterns: Matches more complex patterns, checked with anypats(),
files() contains roots of the matched patterns
* prefix: Matches simple 'path:' patterns as prefixes ('foo' matches
both 'foo' and 'foo/bar'), no single method to check, files()
contains the prefixes to match
For completeness, it would be nice to have a method for checking for
the "prefix" type of matcher as well, so let's add that, making it
return True simply when none of the others do.
The larger goal here is to eliminate uses of match.files() in
conditions (i.e. bool(match.files())). The reason for this is that
there are scenarios when you would like to create a "prefix" matcher
that happens to match no files. One example is for 'hg files -I foo
bar'. The narrowmatcher also restricts the set of files given and it
would not surprise me if have bugs caused by that already. Note that
'if m.files() and not m.anypats()' and similar is sometimes used to
catch the "exact" and "prefix" cases above.
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ echo line 1 > foo
$ hg ci -qAm 'add foo'
copy foo to bar and change both files
$ hg cp foo bar
$ echo line 2-1 >> foo
$ echo line 2-2 >> bar
$ hg ci -m 'cp foo bar; change both'
in another branch, change foo in a way that doesn't conflict with
the other changes
$ hg up -qC 0
$ echo line 0 > foo
$ hg cat foo >> foo
$ hg ci -m 'change foo'
created new head
we get conflicts that shouldn't be there
$ hg merge -P
changeset: 1:484bf6903104
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: cp foo bar; change both
$ hg merge --debug
searching for copies back to rev 1
unmatched files in other:
bar
all copies found (* = to merge, ! = divergent, % = renamed and deleted):
src: 'foo' -> dst: 'bar' *
checking for directory renames
resolving manifests
branchmerge: True, force: False, partial: False
ancestor: e6dc8efe11cc, local: 6a0df1dad128+, remote: 484bf6903104
preserving foo for resolve of bar
preserving foo for resolve of foo
bar: remote copied from foo -> m
picked tool 'internal:merge' for bar (binary False symlink False)
merging foo and bar to bar
my bar@6a0df1dad128+ other bar@484bf6903104 ancestor foo@e6dc8efe11cc
premerge successful
foo: versions differ -> m
picked tool 'internal:merge' for foo (binary False symlink False)
merging foo
my foo@6a0df1dad128+ other foo@484bf6903104 ancestor foo@e6dc8efe11cc
premerge successful
0 files updated, 2 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
contents of foo
$ cat foo
line 0
line 1
line 2-1
contents of bar
$ cat bar
line 0
line 1
line 2-2
$ cd ..